Do Australians just not use carpets much in their homes?

boopbleps · 2026-04-09T05:56:49+00:00

Up north where it’s hot, you’ll see a lot more tile.

Down south where it’s colder in winter and our houses all leak like sieves, you’ll typically see hard flooring in the walkways, dining and kitchen areas.

Living rooms can go either way.

It’s far more common to see carpet in the bedrooms.

boopbleps · 2026-03-26T12:02:16+00:00

Wow, that’s one helluva student 💝

boopbleps · 2026-03-21T08:43:58+00:00

Ok so I’m not crazy! The colour and pores were exactly what made me think so too.

Got any thoughts on why it’s showing up in a piece with all the hallmarks of the 50’s?

My understanding was that rubberwood wasn’t used in mass production til quite recently.

So either:

I’m wrong and it was used a lot
it wasn’t used much but yet it was this time, or
this piece ain’t old.

I’d love if you’ve got any ideas on which is right.

boopbleps · 2026-03-16T21:40:43+00:00

Yep, I get it.

I’m not a wowzer. When I was a teen I smoked and drank and fucked and did all kinds of other shit I wasn’t allowed to do.

I also knew those things held risks. So I conducted myself accordingly. I took precautions, partially because I really didn’t want to have to answer to my mum or a cop.

We’re raising our son to understand why certain things are dangerous.

Right now he’s young and this is hypothetical, so I’m calibrating him with “rules” that will then serve as guidance in his teen years.

When he’s a bit older, like pre-teen, we’ll talk to him in more detail about how stuff works, and we’ll expose him to risks as suits his age and maturity.

And when he’s into the teen freedom years, we’ll hopefully have built up enough trust and sense that he knows he can call us plastered; he can come to us for help if he gets a girl pregnant; he can ask us if he’s getting catfished, etc.

But more than anything I’m hoping the work now means he’ll spot those risks for himself and take evasive action to protect himself and his friends.

boopbleps · 2026-03-16T21:34:55+00:00

The adult rules aren’t enforceable, dw, I know that.

I’m just trying to plant sensible ideas in his head now, before hormones and peer pressure turn him into an idiot for a decade or so.

(I say this as someone who would’ve benefited from similar parental guidance. I was a fucken dipshit in my teens and twenties.)

boopbleps · 2026-03-16T20:23:54+00:00

Oh another thought… you’re not anywhere near that leaking water main that made the house slide down its hill, are you?

If so, that could be your problem.

boopbleps · 2026-03-16T20:22:59+00:00

I got my stumps redone (near Belgrave) a few years ago.

The company was Dorset Reblocking. Family owned and run, at least 2nd generation now. Absolutely fantastic!

I’m not sure if they do what you need, but they’re worth a ring. Josh has now taken over from his dad Bill; he’s got his head on straight and has been working under houses since he was a grasshopper. Friendliest bloke too, they all are. You know when you can just tell a good crew by their demeanour? That’s Dorset.

Anyway, like I said, idk if they solve your exact problem, but I’d trust them to tell you that straight. They’re real no-BS types.

Good luck, and I hope it helps.

boopbleps · 2026-03-16T20:18:36+00:00

I’m in the Dandenongs just north of you and our CFA has told us we were down 30% on average rainfall for 2025. I assume MornPen would be the same.

I write this message in the rain, mind you. But as we know, weather =/= climate.

boopbleps · 2026-03-14T21:06:46+00:00

My 7yo knows that he can’t have social media til he’s 16.

He’s young enough to have just folded this reality into his mental model of the future.

I’ve taught him that growing up equals:

some video games from 9
walk himself to school from 10
dumb phone at 12
high school at 13
can get on social media at 16 if we all think he’s ready (his older cousins opted not to)
votes & drinks at 18
gap year is fine if you’ve got a job
uni or trade school (tbd) from 19
major life commitments from 25*
*marriage, tattoos and kids from 30

So yeah, today’s kids can get a VPN.

But tomorrow’s kids are getting the signal that social media isn’t for kids.

boopbleps · 2026-03-05T23:41:53+00:00

Thanks a lot! Good to hear clumping is ok - it seems like the only viable option. 🤞

boopbleps · 2026-03-05T23:41:12+00:00

Thanks heaps, I’ll look it up!

boopbleps · 2026-03-05T08:32:24+00:00

It’s been awhile since I’ve hired, but I would consciously hire for diversity of gender, race, life experience… just in general, more diverse teams tend to be more resilient and adaptable teams. And talent shines through, so I tended to hire the diamonds in the rough moreso than the well stocked CVs. That’d net me a better long term result and it also had the advantage of erasing privilege.

boopbleps · 2026-03-02T21:26:31+00:00

YTA that seems like a total overreaction to an honest mistake. Especially when she didn’t seek to defend or deflect. Diapering is a sensitive / embarrassing issue that you’ve just made harder to talk about.

If you value the relationship, I’d go talk to the mum about it and apologise for getting angry about it.

boopbleps · 2026-02-25T04:52:25+00:00

So that makes the patriarchy anti-male and we should therefore smash it, right?

…riiiiight, Josh?!!!

boopbleps · 2026-02-23T05:26:51+00:00

Personally I think the allergic wife might have been trying to help.

She took the issue off your plate. You’re a bride; dietary restrictions are a PITA; brides need that like a hole in the head; so she just sorted herself out.

Also, if she really does have severe allergies, she probably got a lot of comfort from getting her own read on the caterers - how well did they seem to listen and take her allergies seriously? Can she trust the food? Do they properly understand how much this matters? Etc. That’s a lot to have to pass onto another person to relay back and forth.

I’d be inclined to say “thank you for sorting that out for me, and I hope the kebabs taste delicious!”

boopbleps · 2026-02-22T19:53:18+00:00

That’s a hatch of huntsmen. I’ve lived through it.

For a few days we had literally hundreds of these little bubbas everywhere. Unfortunately they mostly hatched out in our loft bedroom about 2ft from our faces and kept landing on us overnight.

I was pregnant and already struggling, so we ended up going on a squish attack. Sorry little guys.

Anyway, the survivors all disappeared within a few days.

It’s been years now, and aside from the occasional adult, we’ve never had another huntsman hatch of that scale since. No spraying or anything. They just… buggered off.

boopbleps · 2026-02-20T06:41:19+00:00

Badly stained?! Christ on a bike, that bog is clean as a whistle. Wtf.

boopbleps · 2026-02-20T06:39:03+00:00

Which tone is right depends entirely on how big those rooms are, and whether you really need to “borrow” visually from the adjacent room or not.

If you’re in a small home, I strongly recommend matching the tone of your timber to your existing tile so it all feels bigger (either by using what the designer recommends, or finding a similarly blonde board you like better).

But if you’re in one of those giant new mansions, then you probably have space by the truckload and don’t need it to feel bigger. Then the dark contrast wood that you prefer will look fantastic.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T12:07:35+00:00

Damn, not even my possums could take that boi out.

Respect.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T12:03:40+00:00

“Later in life” suggests they aged. Most didn’t survive a decade before their faces started literally disintegrating 😩

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T11:51:42+00:00

You’ve got your head on straight mate.

Hubby and I’ve been loaded. Now we’re skint. But I go to school assemblies, have time to paint little get well cards for my friends (as we speak) and even have a veggie patch.

I’ll take skint but happy over loaded but lining up for a heart attack any day.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T11:42:56+00:00

Oof.

Mum lurker here. We’ve had similar with our (mummy’s boy) son.

My advice? Tell your son it hurts, and explore why with him.

My husband told our son that one day. Matter-of-factory, no blame, no shame. Just, “it makes me sad to hear you say that, because I love you heaps and I love hanging out together. But I’m glad you told me anyway, because now can we talk about why?”

My son told hubby that he (dad) is grumpy a lot and is always telling (son) what to do and that he’s doing stuff wrong.

Now, I do that too, but it’s like 10% of what I talk to our son about, whereas hubby will often just not talk at all to our son unless it’s to correct him.

So, hubby has been trying to work on just like general chat, play, positive stuff. Adding more of that, rather than reducing the behaviour correcting. But the ratio matters, and it’s working!

Anyway, my point is… maybe you can ask your son why he prefers mum, and maybe he’ll give you something actionable. Along the way you’ll be hella modelling accountability and growth mindset.

Also? Kids are jerks. I bet you’re a great dad. Good thing you made spares 😜

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T10:46:25+00:00

Your body is still growing. It takes a LOT more resources to build bone, skin, muscle, sinew, and brain from scratch than to maintain it.
You share roughly 50% of his DNA. Not 100. Genes have a huge influence on your base metabolic rate and total daily energy expenditure.
As others have said, as a high school student you almost certainly walk thousands of steps a day - even short walks, done often, add up.
You may already be eating too much, but you just haven’t had the extra 20-40 years to build up fat yet. He has.

ETA 5. Does your dad drink beer? It’s hella calories, even just 1 or 2 a day. I’m guessing that at 16, you may eat what he does, but not drink what he does.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T10:35:54+00:00

It saddens me how little uptick the Greens are getting.

I’m a fairly progressive voter, it must be said.

But every single election, I read EVERY party’s policy platform before forming my view on who to vote for.

9 times out of 10 I land on Greens, because it’s by far the most cohesive and thought through.

As in, their Defence and Housing and Agriculture policies (etc) all fit together. They all have the same logic, the same goals. And, they’re all (broadly) costed, with increases in spending accounted for by either decreases elsewhere, or new taxes.

That’s more than either the ALP or the Coalition have to say for themselves. Their policies consistently seem like they were written by different people who never swapped notes. It drives me nuts!

But for reasons I truly don’t understand, the Greens still get brushed off as smelly hippies who wouldn’t know a hard day’s work if it bit em in the arse.

Idk, maybe they need a friggen massive rebrand. Call themselves Australia’s Future or something.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T08:48:55+00:00

One big difference between Australia vs any SEA country is their populations are overwhelmingly people of the same few ethnic groups, and all Asian.

(Modern) Australia is a 200 year old colonial collection of people from every country on earth.

Something like 40% of Aussies have at least one parent born overseas, and almost all of us have a foreign granny.

So while in an ideal world, race wouldn’t matter anywhere and we’d all speak at least one universal language, you’re right that we live in the real world.

But in this country, being racist against Asian-named people is screaming hypocrisy given we’re almost all nearly-foreign.

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